In attempting to install grunt under Ubuntu 14.04 I kept getting the infamous
error:
**grunt@0.4.5 /home/yml/sudo: unable to resolve host cylon **
However, in my case I had resolved the sudo error some time ago by setting
/etc/hosts and /etc/hostname correctly. It turns out that while installing
Titanium Appcelerator ... Read Full Article

It turns out the system wide light locker (Screen locker password prompt after
inactivity) setting incorrectly overrides the per-user account one.
Move the system wide one to a backup file:
sudo mv /etc/xdg/autostart/light-locker.desktop
/etc/xdg/autostart/light-locker.desktop.bak
Then make sure the Exec= line is e ... Read Full Article

This represented over an hour of my life.
After upgrading to Lubuntu 14.04 LTS on my Lenovo Thinkpad X100E, I was unable
to enable the wifi adapter.
In a terminal window "rfkill list" showed that wlan0 was soft-blocked. Enabling
it using rfkill did not solve my problem as the UI would continue to show wifi
as disabl ... Read Full Article

TAO is a memcache replacement designed by Facebook to handle their social graph
queries. It is not open sourced but a paper on it is available.
[https://code.facebook.com/publications/161988287341248/tao-facebook-s-distributed-data-store-for-the-social-graph/ ][1]
Another project is a router front-end to memcached ... Read Full Article

We had to move the servers back upstairs. Given that vetsclub is very long in
the tooth we were afraid it wouldn't come back up. So a a fallback, in case it
failed to boot, we decided to create a virtual copy of physical vetsclub.
The recipe is pretty straight forward. Because the machine is so old, Duncan
pulled the ... Read Full Article

So for the longest time I've been showing videos and photos on the big TV by
copying everything over to a spare USB drive and then plugging it into the PS/3.
It works, but it's klunky.
What I really wanted to do was set up a generic computer that I could plug
directly into the TV and use it to show videos (mostly ... Read Full Article